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vv That was - in a more succinct way - what a wrote here on the 6th of may. :)

yesterday morning

people missused the term so much that now the definition of it became "a guy who plays his own songs on a acustic guitar". that's why i laugh when i see this tag used only for folk stuff. the guy below is right though

Saturday afternoon

Jeez such a silly discussion: "Singer" a person who sings, "Songwriter"= a person who writes songs, thus "Singer-Songwriter"= a singer who writes his own songs. Not realy sure what an acoustic guitar has to with it. A person who sings and writes his songs using a piano is not a singer-songwriter? A "composer", a person who creates (composes) music. Thus a singer-songwriter can be perfectly considered a composer because he composes a song. For some stupid reason people get it their head that a singer-songwriter must use an acoustic guitar and a composer is someone more oriented toward instrumental or classical music.

last week

i bet you got that information on wikipedia didn't you, silly goose?

last week

singer-songwriter = a guy who make songs based on an acustic guitar? thats some knowledge right here!

last week

The definition you give of a composer is artificial and disputable. A composer can be anyone who creates music, a composer can - and usually is - a songwriter. What you are implying is that a "composer" is someone who composes "art" contrasting with others that simply do music. A composer of sonatas isn't more musician than someone who writes rock, both are musicians in the same sense, the difficulty of writing a music isn't only sustained by the category you attribute to his creator. Of course some arrangements of Scott Walker, for instance, are made not to be played live but that isn't a specific characteristic of all those who can be inscribed as "composers", on the contrary, most composers want their compositions to be "played live". Actually, the main reason Scott Walker doesn't play his songs live may be the fact he refuses to do it. Many of his composition could be played live, as most of John Cage were.

last week

No. A composer doesn't write "songs" by any traditional definition of the word. He usually sends an e-mail to Zeus and then waits he launches a lighting bolt directly to his head with the exact platonic form of the already made composition.

last week

You clearly have zero concept of what the definition of 'singer-songwriter' is if you believe an avant-garde composer is one. A composer doesn't even write 'songs' by any traditional definition of the word. I'd love to hear you cover Iannis Xenakis on an acoustic guitar. Or even 'SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)'.

last week

VV It's an acquired taste. It is different to talk about Scott's singing in the 60's and 70's and to talk about his singing now. In late 60's his voice was much similar of Sinatra's in many ways, at least for me, he sings now with a completely different metric and style.

last week

V you can cure it with feels

15 days ago

I'm trying to get into Walker, but I have some problems with his voice... I admit I don't like it much. Anyone else has/had the same problem? Is it curable.

16 days ago

@sunheadbowed: Uh...he isn't? Doesn't "avant-garde composers" write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies? The exact definition of singer-songwriter.

18 days ago

http://revolutionblues.wordpress.com/

20 days ago

Does anyone else think The Day the "Conducator" Died sounds a bit like Scott Walker's dating profile summary?

last month

He's not exactly a singer-songwriter anymore, is he. He's more of an avant-garde composer.

last month

You forgot the 00's and the 2010's.

last month

scott is the best singer-songwriter from his generation, also the 90s. genius indeed

last month

I'm getting a high on the new album. Gorgeous, yummy, lover-lee. George Bish should be Bosched. (Semen and blood on his face when he listens and looks at nice paintings.)

March 2013

...and you are funny too! ^_^

March 2013

the new album is funny

March 2013

I finally gave Bish Bosh a listen, a very passive one at that. He's obviously gone for the done-and-trusted austere soundworld again which, whilst exhilarating me in certain segments, made me wish that he'd orchestrated certain sections (the ominous, chilling orchestral blocks of The Drift are sublime). Also, while I have not given the lyrics much notice, they seem even more abstract than usual. The great thing about Tilt and The Drift is that they have cryptic, fragmented little narratives with scathing political satire. (Having said that, I'm sure these lyrics do have a semblance of narrative, I just haven't paid enough notice to them yet.) Overall, if Walker continues in this vein there's the danger of becoming self-parodical. Still, I'm sure this is a fine record which will yield results to me but, as always with Walker, it is not something I can play with regularity.

March 2013

Scottyscottyscottscott... You're a genius!

March 2013

Yes, it is, no_such_thing. :)

March 2013

BB is a grower. Trust it.

February 2013

Scott's new dance album is coming along smoothly: www.soundcloud.com/adam-buxton/scott-walker-covers-scream.. ;)

January 2013

haha that NME review is the worst album review I've ever read

January 2013

No one does. That was the joke.

January 2013

Who gives a toss what the NME thinks? They're the fucking NME.

January 2013

3/10..haha that tells me!

January 2013

3/10! NME has spoken.

January 2013

4chan has overrun the entire internet.

January 2013

Happy birthday Scott! :)

January 2013

There is definitely a lot of /mu/ on Last fm.

January 2013

Avant garde for dummies.

January 2013

1.http://www.lastfm.es/music/Scott+Walker/+images/85548067 2.http://www.lastfm.es/music/Scott+Walker/+images/85547977

January 2013

Go to the Sonic Youth, Captain Beefheart, or My Bloody Valentine shoutboxes if you want to see a real shit show. I think 4chan has overrun Last.fm. It's a shame.

January 2013

So this thread is still one of the dumbest and shittiest places on this site, huh? Call me Objectivity 1.

December 2012

Albumreview seiner neuen Platte zu lesen unter: http://www.mediafire.com/view/?cd0hf9uuk3eboaw Und viel mehr. YES IT'S IN GERMAN!

December 2012

cool dude

December 2012

why the hate

December 2012

OnceMoreBob obviously doesn't have the intelligence or creativity to think of any other reasons a person might have for using the word "pseudo" other than to attempt to prove their intelligence. Do you feel that way about any other words, Bob? Care to share?

December 2012

Bish Bosch is one of my 12 albums of '12: http://wp.me/p15szY-EK

December 2012

I want to be a sumo-vanguarder too.

December 2012

He said pseudo! That must must mean he's smart

December 2012

Sorry pseudo-vanguardist guy, but this is my opinion, like every comment at Last.fm. Go start a flame war in some retarded imageboard, not here. Plus, the username is mine, take care of your own life.

December 2012

Tilt is better, anyway. My name's subjectivity 2.

December 2012

sorry people on the internet my opinion is above everybody else's, my name is subjectivity GU574

December 2012

Sorry guys, but "Scott" 4 is his best record. "The Drift" and "Bish Bosch" are awesome too, but "4" is one of the best things that i have listened to.

December 2012